March 12, 2015 (2)

Friday the 13th. More stress at work. More things to worry about. More new music.




Hatcher Creek - Strawberry Runners
Anything I Do Is All Right - Happyness
Strange Hellos - Torres
Tame Impala - Sunflower Bean
Colors - Genevieve
Jackrabbit - San Fermin

March 12, 2015

Have I mentioned how much I enjoy just hearing brand new music. These are bands I've never heard of. Thanks NPR. So refreshing. Here's more of what I liked...



I Like Not Knowing - Fatherson
Uja - Tanya Tagaq
I Love You Money - Lowell
First of August - Joan Shelley
We Are Siamese - The Lees of Memory
Acid Reflex - Pity Sex
Witness - Makthaverskan
Time To Go Home - Chastity Belt
Silhouettes - Colony House
Keef Ripper - Donovan Wolfington
Free - Whiskey Shivers
Understand the Problem - Quiet Company
Blah Blah Blah - Girlpool
Strange Enough - VÉRITÉ
Bamboo - Hinds

March 11, 2015

More new music from the NPR Austin 100. Artists playing SXSW.


Falling - Howard
Townie - Mitski
Everyone But You - Field Mouse
Sedona - Houndmouth
Shiny Things - A. Sinclair
Mania - The Last Year
Thinkin of U - Summer Heart
Darker Side of Sunshine - Bell Gardens

March 10, 2015

SXSW firing up in Austin. NPR providing it's usual rotation of 100 songs mostly from bands I've never heard of. Here are a few songs that caught my ear amidst the hectic crazyness of lots of stuff going on at work. I do enjoy hearing brand new music for the first time.



Something New - Summer Cannibals
Perfect Vision - Cheerleader
Älgen - Amason
Sykia - Young Buffalo
All The Pretty Girls - Kaleo
Pink Slime - La Luz
OutRight - Wild Party
Swimming Pool - Emmy the Great
Ghosts - Ibeyi
Radar - Moving Panoramas
I'm Ready - Geographer

March 5, 2015

The swelling tide of responsibility and projects that need to be done is rolling towards me. I feel like I'm swimming happily (more or less) along at the beach and on the horizon a huge wave is forming. Not a tidal wave or anything, but one large enough that I'm probably going to be tossed around for a bit. I don't know yet how large it will be nor how easy to ride it out, etc... from here it looks like it's going to be a rough go. But you still have to just get through it.

As per usual, these are some songs that struck my fancy. Some old favorites, some newly discovered. Music helps get through those overwhelming waves.

Fake Empire - The National

Next Exit - Interpol
Breathe Me - Sia
Blood - The Middle East
Calgary - Bon Iver
The New - Interpol
To Go Home - M. Ward
Bloodstream - Stateless
Evil - Interpol
Flume - Bon Iver
Jezebel - Iron and Wine
Hallelujah - The Helio Sequence